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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1944
Page
1
Decatur daily notes include a weather outlook with highs near 59 and lows around 47, rainfall 0.08 inch. Local cotton prices register strict middling 20.85, middling 20.70, strict low 18.85, low 15.85. film listings show Union Pacific at the Princess, You’ll Never Get Rich at the Roxy, The Mantrap at the Capitol.
Allied air superiority across the Pacific and China. Chinese forces report a 30 mile breach near Loyang within nine miles of the ancient city as Nipponese advance. Allied air victories against Japan include seven to one in Burma and attacks on Tokyo outposts. British Indian troops push around Kohima while monsoon rains threaten further offensives. In Burma, small Allied gains are noted as air battles tilt in favor of the Allies. In North China Japanese tank advances approach Loyang, while Peiping Hankow railway remains contested.
Chinese commando reports a 30 mile Japanese breakthrough driving toward Loyang nine miles away. Japanese tanks and armored cars moved from Lunju after crossing the Yi River, with further advances along the Lunghai railway and Peiping Hankow line as the Henan front expands in a major 1938 era drive.
Congressman Cannon cites Southern letters backing repeal of national war time arguing daylight saving causes confusion and harms the war effort. Letters from Watts in Huntsville Wells in Adel Stikeleather in Florence and Steiner in Mobile endorse Standard Time return.
Ernie Pyle notes Casablanca feels normal and at peace after brief wartime activity. He observes calm streets, steady port operations, and orderly traffic with few soldiers, contrasting earlier cities crowded by military convoys.
In Casablanca soldiers grow bored amid a year and a half of routine duty. An officer laments missing front-line action while noting stricter regulations away from the front and the desire for change or combat.
James Rankin and Thomas Adams arrive at the Leighton State National Bank to honor manager Paul Barclift with a gold medal and a $100 war bond for extraordinary bravery during the March 1 robbery. Barclift calmly confronted the robber, subduing the threat at the Leighton bank door, and later assisted in the investigation.
Fifth Army GIs in Naples place small Derby bets at Stars and Stripes office. Sgt Bill Estoff posts the Naples Book with an $10 limit per bet and 18 overnight entries. Fifty soldiers stake about $200, favoring Stir Up and Pensive as the top choices, with results arriving 16 hours after the race.
Police disclosed a photograph of a woman living with a man identified as John Lopez at a Chicago hotel. They hope to use it to identify the nearly nude body packed in a trunk shipped to Los Angeles. Detective Breitzke said hotel checkout by Mr and Mrs John Lopez was recorded and a handyman reported blood stains on the mattress.
Louis Meyer was chosen justice of the peace in Bayou La Batre by a single vote in last Tuesday's Democratic primary. Ed Fields, Mobile county Democratic chairman, announced that Meyer appeared on the ballot unopposed and received the lone ballot cast for the office.
World War II dispatch reports Rommel warning Germans that Allied invasion of Europe is imminent. Analysts forecast 2,660,000 Allied troops and 100,000 landing craft this month, with main blow across the English Channel and diversions to Denmark and Norway.
A large force of about 750 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by fighters, conducted daylight bombing against five key Romanian communications centers, expanding the Mediterranean air campaign against Nazi Romania. Meanwhile reports reached Allied headquarters of a mass exodus of Italian civilians from a 20 mile strip beyond the Fifth Army front in Southern Italy.
EAST ST. LOUIS Illinois May 6 Four day old Robert P LaBouy Jr emitted a hearty squall into the telephone and Mrs Labouy is certain his father a warrant officer somewhere in the South Pacific is satisfied. LaBouy called yesterday wanting to hear the voice of his first born. "Make him cry" he instructed his wife. But Robert Jr would only smile and the nurse gave him a little wallop. Robert howled his indignation. "Good" exclaimed LaBouy from four thousand miles away before he hung up.
The So viet high command said Russian fleet and air units sank eight Axis ships off Sevastopol boosting to 19 vessels destroyed there in two days. Moscow also reported several attacks as Axis forces faced strong Red Army defense along the Chernaya river and near Sevastopol.
Melvin Flick, 43, of Florence, rode a runaway coal car seven miles down an underground slope at the Golden Cycle Scale mine near Canon City. The car derailed after the cable broke, crashed into a wall, and slid off the track. He was rescued with only cuts and bruises and taken to a Canon City hospital.
The Cooperative League of the U S A said today that United States cooperatives, despite wartime manpower and supply shortages, have made their biggest strides and plan to become a yardstick for business after the war.
Albert Rains, Gadsden attorney, wins the U S House bid over Rep. Joe Starnes in Alabama's Fifth District primary. Rains says no national issues influenced the race, noting his appeal as a candidate of the people. Final unofficial tally shows Rains 14137, Starnes 12587, Shaddix 943.
Allied air forces bombed a 100 mile stretch of landing beaches near Britain and Romanian rail hubs as pre invasion operations intensified. Liberators Marauders Fortresses and Mustangs attacked Calais Boulogne Dieppe and the Pas de Calais area and Romanian rail centers near Bucharest Craiova Pitesti Campina Turnu Severin while RAF Mosquitos targeted inland France with no losses reported.
Kansas City May 6 The fastest working general conference in Methodist history finished in ten days. The session urged wartime prohibition and more social work for conscientious objectors, declined to oppose conscription, and supported church aid to objectors. Quakers and Brethren aid funds were noted.
Washington state Republicans in convention unanimously endorsed Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican presidential nomination and recommended he be drafted and elected 16 delegates to the national convention, all of whom favored Dewey.
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